Logistics companies complain that a lack of drivers jeopardises deliveries to retailers and to industry. Some go so far as to predict companies going to the wall. Their solution? Create a special class of visa so that at least some of the truck drivers who returned to the continent after Brexit can be tempted back. This affair highlights another service we were getting on the cheap while we were in the EU.
In December 2019, the UK voted decisively for a government which would take the UK out of the EU. It has been made clear on many occasions that those voting for Brexit were well aware that things would become more expensive as a result. They felt that it was a price worth paying for England & Wales' splendid isolation. They will not be at all happy with continentals sneaking back in via a loophole created by "their" government to fix a problem temporarily when the long-term solution is to recruit and retain more drivers from the UK. Already the trade union Unite is on the warpath.
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